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<div>Dear All,</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>As agreed we will meeting again today, Tuesday, Dec. 3 at 4 pm ET, and </div>
<div>meetings are proposed on a TTh schedule into next week as needed. We need </div>
<div>to decide on the schedule thereafter through the holiday season.</div>
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<div>Please see the link and call-in number just below.</div>
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<div>If you have not yet participated in the Arecibo Community Survey, please do so now.</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span><a href="https://forms.gle/AftVdeUq29z6qSJi9">https://forms.gle/AftVdeUq29z6qSJi9</a></div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Best regards and thanks,</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Joanna</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">(no password; screen sharing is enabled and everyone is muted by default upon joining)</div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friends of Arecibo Agenda 12/03/2020</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Update (20 mins)</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Suggested Breakout Groups / Team Formation (45 mins)</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Making the Case – White Paper Draft, documenting importance to people</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">scientists, students, teachers, public, etc </span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arecibo 2.0 Design – Review Futures Conference ideas,
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Identify and draw up basic design needs for radio, radar, ionosphere</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Identify top experts as consultants</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Advocacy – with Congress, White House, NSF, NSB, others</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Publicity and Outreach – to media as well as our community, PR</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Others?</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Breakout Groups report back (15 mins)</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are immediate and longer term goals?</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who agreed to be the team leader?</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where are the group’s minutes posted?</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dec. 8,10, then weekly on Tuesdays? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Working groups set other meetings as needed?</span><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Suggestion for Small Groups</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Appoint a convenor to facilitate as needed</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Someone please volunteer to take notes on a google doc</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> What are the three most important immediate goals? Who will do them and when?</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> What are our group's three most important goals for 2021?</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Identify a team leader who will convene the group and make sure the work gets done</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Youngest person will report 3 minutes of highlights</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Send google doc reference to
<a href="mailto:sondy@sondy.com">sondy@sondy.com</a>)</span></div>
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</span></font>initiated by Puerto Rican scientists and others to #RebuildTheAreciboObservatory at <a href="https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/rebuild-arecibo-observatory" class="">https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/rebuild-arecibo-observatory</a></div>
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<div>Op-Ed in <i>Wired</i> <a href="https://www.wired.com/preview/story/5fc7f34bd840498ab676cf50?status=draft&t=1606952485706">published today</a> </div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">There is a Slack for discussion between meetings, sharing images/developments, and to come up with focused actions.</font></div>
<div><a href="https://join.slack.com/t/arecibomaria/shared_invite/zt-j60u0cmq-GvqSMxoNpi11XLbUSsxNJw" target="_blank">https://join.<span class="gmail-il">slack</span>.com/t/arecibomaria/shared_invite/zt-j60u0cmq-GvqSMxoNpi11XLbUSsxNJw</a><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
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<div>There are two petitions circulating, information is from Allison Smith, AO staff:</div>
<div>The petitions below were started by the general public & UPR students-- staff are supporting it. Jenniffer Gonzalez also requested the House & Senate Appropriations Committee to provide funds for repairs so it could help to write, call, urge the committee
to approve it. Or contact them with different requests on AOs behalf.<br>
Petition to NSF to stabilize and fix the observatory: (started by someone we don't know!)<br>
<a href="https://www.change.org/p/united-states-national-science-foundation-nsf-repair-the-arecibo-observatory-do-not-decommission-it">https://www.change.org/p/united-states-national-science-foundation-nsf-repair-the-arecibo-observatory-do-not-decommission-it</a><br>
Petition to congress to provide funds and enforce emergency action: (started by UPR students)<br>
<a href="https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/petition-emergency-action-evaluate-and-stabilize-arecibo-radio-telescope">https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/petition-emergency-action-evaluate-and-stabilize-arecibo-radio-telescope</a></div>
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